Production Planner

Rheinmetall Weapon Munitions UK Ltd. (RWM UK) is part of Germanies largest defence engineering company Rheinmetall AG based in Düsseldorf (Germany). We design, manufacture and support military large-calibre weapon systems used by the British Army and international customers. RWM UK is now starting a new production site in Telford.

The individual in this role will support the Supply Chain team\ Master Production Schedule in the delivery and schedule of products and full Weapon Systems within the manufacturing environment ensuring cost, quality and schedule requirements are attained.

The incumbent will actively participate in the effective creation and maintenance of schedules and management of product data within the SAP toolset underpinned with a knowledge and application of MRPII principles ideally within a SAP S4 Hana environment. Expected to be able to adapt and apply their practices in a variety of circumstances, to develop their practices and to guide and instruct others in their application.

The individual will be responsible for:

• Create master production routings/schedule(s) to control production and external supply chain within the SAP environment
• Co-ordinate the strategic planning of BoM’s (MBoM) within the SAP environment ensuring configuration management control
• Production control, in conjunction with the Production Controller, timely provision of plans and materials in production scheduling of production orders for the whole Telford site, coordination of meetings with production, logistics, purchasing, etc
• Creation of SAP-purchase-requests, SAP-production-orders, SAP-shipping-requests (AzV) and collection requests (AzA)
• Coordination of external and internal material-flow together with the logistics-experts
• Responsible for the creation and management of capacity planning models for the whole Telford site
• Creation and maintenance of master production schedules and material resource planning within the SAP environment
• Creation of a supply plan, monitoring factory / production line capacity and inventory optimisation
• Preparation and management of balanced and levelled production plans
• Continuous monitoring of the schedule situation from internal production and external materials
• Establish and maintain manufacturing resource forward load data to understand capacity constraints
• Coordinate the development and analysis of plant performance, provision and dissemination of performance reports and corrective action plans as required
• Support to the Supply Chain and Operations Management teams
• Provision and review of relevant metrics and KPI’s to ensure operational activities are delivered to cost and schedule

• Completed vocational training in a technical profession with further training as a Production planner or controller or similar would be ideal.
• Experience in materials planning/order processing as Material dispatcher/Production controller
• Good knowledge of SAP and MRP ideally S4 Hana, and all functionality and Microsoft Office especially Excel to a high standard is essential
• Affinity for numbers, data and facts and the ability to present these to audiences at different levels
• Excellent communication and analytical skills (verbal and presentational)
• Ability to work and influence cross-functionally with Stakeholder management techniques

Rheinmetall is establishing a new production site for large calibre barrels in Telford - and you have the opportunity to join the company at this really exciting time of growth and be involved in setting up the new plant from the very beginning.

What do we offer:

• Competitive salaries reviewed each year against market
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare Plan
• Employer pension contribution up to 6% matched by employer
• Free on site car park
• Career development opportunities
• Excellent Training Opportunities